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In this essay I approach three books written by authors of Romanian literary theory, criticism and new wave history. They question, from different points of view, the socalled "aesthetic autonomy" of the literary works (and champ), which has been, since the Communist era (1948-1989), an ambidextrous (offensive-defensive), almost dogmatic principle ruling the Romanian literary establishment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article draws on Romanian sociological and anthropological literature, laws and official statistics, as well as on the most important programmes and reports of various organizations, in order to: (1) depict a historical map of the main theoretical and methodological approaches, themes and objects of research on children and childhood in Romania; and (2) outline some historical evolutions of the value of children in Romanian society. The article highlights prominent lines of continuity as well as significant changes, and indicates some similarities and dissimilarities between Romanian society and social sciences and its western counterparts. It reveals that Romanian sociological traditions were once particularly promising with regard to the structural sociology of children and childhood, but nowadays research has become more open to the 'sociology of children' or to 'the minority group child', while the structural sociology of childhood remains an isolated 'island'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sports are less of a leisure activity in Romania than in France, even though the former has maintained an "Olympic elite" and its admission into Europe is leading to social and economic emancipation. Given this paradox, it is worthwhile comparing the practices and attitudes related to sports in these two countries. As a survey shows, the dimension associated with sports is "functional" in Romania but hedonistic in France. This situation, apparently a consequence of Romania's Communist past, when sports was an ideological tool for forming a nationalist spirit, impede current policies for developing recreational sports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]